Adalberto Toledo

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Articles

Labor leader Dolores Huerta at 94: ‘We’re in a very perilous time right now’

Jun 8, 2024 | sfchronicle.com | Adalberto Toledo

Dolores Huerta sat down on a couch Saturday inside the offices of the Mission Language and Vocational School as caterers hastily prepared dozens of dishes nearby and a man hauled a loudspeaker past the door. The Stockton-born Huerta, an icon of the 1960s and ’70s farmworker movement, was celebrating her 94th birthday in San Francisco along with about a hundred invitees — only it’s two months after her actual birthday.
S.F.’s jubilant Juneteenth parade and festival celebrate strength, spirit and love

Jun 8, 2024 | sfchronicle.com | Adalberto Toledo

Tina Collins scooped handfuls of tortilla chips onto a paper plate and spooned chili on top Saturday as the wind howled down San Francisco’s Market Street. The Code Tenderloin project manager said feeding people for free was the most appropriate way to celebrate Juneteenth, the day in 1865 when slaves in the deep south of Texas learned of their emancipation more than two years earlier — even if it was her birthday.
S.F.’s struggling Union Square is the focus of Breed’s latest plan for economic revival

Jun 4, 2024 | sfchronicle.com | Adalberto Toledo

San Francisco Mayor London Breed pledged Tuesday to direct more city resources to the struggling downtown districts of Union Square and Yerba Buena, announcing plans to reduce parking fees, boost entertainment zones, redesign streets and increase security.
Empty storefronts line S.F.’s iconic Powell Street. Can a $6 million plan save it?

Jun 2, 2024 | sfchronicle.com | Adalberto Toledo |Danielle Echeverria

Stepping out onto Powell and Market today finds a different scene. Two of the three massive storefronts in the historic Flood Building — owned by Flood’s family for two generations — sit empty. The building is one of the first sights visitors or residents encounter when exiting the BART station or waiting for the cable cars.
Wealthy S.F. mayoral candidate Daniel Lurie will forgo public funding

May 24, 2024 | sfchronicle.com | Adalberto Toledo

Wealthy Levi’s heir Daniel Lurie announced Friday he will fund his own mayoral campaign and decline public financing. The announcement comes amid what is expected to be one of most expensive mayoral races in San Francisco history, a crowded race in which candidates have together already raised millions of dollars ahead of the November election.
Whistleblower report: Here’s a look at bad behavior by San Francisco employees

May 24, 2024 | sfchronicle.com | Adalberto Toledo

Sleeping on duty. Stealing city property. Hiring family members. A new whistleblower report found San Francisco city employees engaged in these inappropriate practices, among others, this year. Every quarter the San Francisco Controller’s Office publishes a detailed report on its whistleblower program. This quarter’s report — spanning from Jan.
S.F. faces deep budget cuts as Mayor Breed prepares to close massive deficit

May 24, 2024 | flipboard.com | Chase DiFeliciantonio |Adalberto Toledo |J.D. Morris

‘The dirty little secret in this town’: GOP voters could decide S.F. mayor’s raceOnly 7% of San Francisco’s registered voters are Republicans, but the city’s top GOP leaders say the party is poised to play an outsize role in …
S.F. faces deep budget cuts as Mayor Breed prepares to close massive deficit

May 24, 2024 | sfchronicle.com | Chase DiFeliciantonio |Adalberto Toledo |J.D. Morris

San Franciscans are about to find out how big a hit city services could take as Mayor London Breed and local legislators prepare to close another huge deficit. In the coming days, Breed is expected to unveil her next spending plan that will detail how she intends to keep the government afloat despite a nearly $800 million two-year shortfall caused largely by rising costs, weak tax revenues linked to the city’s ailing downtown and the slow return of the tourism industry decimated by the pandemic.
Speed Enforcement Cameras to Focus on San Francisco Scofflaws

May 21, 2024 | govtech.com | Adalberto Toledo

At least 33 cameras will automatically catch and ticket speeding drivers by the end of 2024. Speed enforcement cameras were not permitted in California, but Gov. Gavin Newsom signed traffic safety legislation in October to allow them as a pilot project in five cities, including San Francisco and Oakland.
S.F. police searching for missing 14-year-old girl

May 21, 2024 | sfchronicle.com | Kevin Fagan |Adalberto Toledo

Police and worried family members are searching for a 14-year-old girl who disappeared from her San Francisco home on Friday. Genesis “Raquel” Barrera-Hernandez was last seen near Turk and Hyde streets in the Tenderloin, according to a San Francisco Police bulletin. She is described as 5-foot-4, 130 pounds with brown eyes and hair.